Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar.
BARRY GOLDWATERA woman has a right to an abortion. That’s a decision that’s up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
More Barry Goldwater Quotes
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After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox.
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It’s political Daddyism and it’s as old as demagogues and despotism.
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We shall return to proven ways – not because they are old, but because they are true.
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Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don’t have to be good at them to enjoy them.
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Well, once you’ve been in the Canyon and once you’ve sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends…it’s always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I’ve often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon.
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We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.
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It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.
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I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.
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When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
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The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
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I say that when you elect a president you want a man to manage the legitimate business of your government. The government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it away.
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If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit
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I won’t say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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